United States v. Nickerson

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

This case grows out of the government’s plan to establish a naval aviation station at Chatham, on Cape Cod. The petition is a condemnation, or more accurately a valuation, proceeding brought under the statutory provisions described in Turner v. Woodard, 259 F. 737, 740, 170 C. C. A. 537. Attached to the petition, and made part thereof by reference, is a letter from the Acting Secretary of the Navy to the Attorney General, in which there is a reeithl that the department had completed negotiations with the owners for the purchase of their respective parcels, on condition…